BY
PENNY WOLIN
In 1975, twenty-one-year-old, Wyoming-raised photographer Penny Wolin checked into a pay-by-the-week residential hotel on a faded stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, and began to make portraits of her neighbors.
Guest Register is not an inventory of transitory souls, but a benediction from them, “a permanent amulet,” as Wolin says, to keep the unfeeling at bay, and dreams close at hand.
“Staying for one night or thirty years, we were housed as one, possibly living next door to a future famous writer punching typewriter keys through the night, or perhaps a young honeymoon couple rocking their creaking bed to sleep against our shared wall.”
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PRAISE
“Startling and poignant photographs. It’s good work.”
“Guest Register provides a deeply insightful portrait of America; vulnerable, complicated and imperfect”
“Through Penny’s eyes the people are memorable. I want to know what happened to them.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Penny Wolin is the author of three photographic monographs. Her photographs are held in such collections as the Smithsonian American Art Museum; she is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities; she was a contract photographer with LIFE Magazine; studied photography at ArtCenter College of Design; film at the American Film Institute and visual anthropology at UCLA. She currently resides in the great city of Los Angeles and a small farm in the Redwoods of Northern California.